HYDERABAD: A woman reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the upper storey of her sister’s house after allegedly poisoning her two children in the Pucca Qila area on Sunday.

The body of Saima, wife of Naveed Ahmed, was collected by police after people informed them of the incident. She was found lying dead on the main road running parallel to her sister’s house in the Do-Qabar area. It was learnt that she also had consumed phenyl after giving the poisonous substance to her children -- two and a half years old daughter Rabia and one year old son Raja -- at the house.

Saima belonged to Hyderabad and came from a jeweller family while her husband, Naveed Ahmed, a banker, is a resident of Korangi-5, Karachi. After his arrival from Karachi on Sunday evening, Naveed told police that he had temporarily left his wife at her sister’s house as she (Saima) had some issues with his mother and she had hit the latter with some blunt object.

SHO Sikandar Mustafa of the Fort police station quoted Naveed Saima’s brother, Qayyum, as telling him that she was hot-headed and often remain in a fit of pique.

Edhi volunteers shifted the three bodies to the Liaquat University Hospital’s city branch for a post-mortem examination. No case was registered till late in the evening.

Published in Dawn, March 12th, 2018